Our Moment in The Sunflowers
Bring on the smiles with summer sunshine and sunflowers.
Sunflowers are child’s play. Fast growing and unfussy, these easy-to-grow annuals are a solar-driven wonder machine. With stratospheric growth in warm soil and a sunny disposition, sunflowers encourage us to pause our plotting and planning and marvel at the generosity of a little seed.
Whether you decide to plant a hedge of giant sunflowers in the alley to delight the neighbors (and the birds), cultivate branching forms for continuous late-summer bouquets, or pop a few seeds of a dwarf variety into a container on the patio, growing sunflowers is like growing smiles.
Cut flower farmers plant successive crops of sunflowers well into July to keep the harvest going long into fall. Which means, there’s still time to sow this growing season. Choose from a variety of flower colors, growing habits, and wildlife benefits.
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